Root Caries Management: Evidence and Consensus Based Report

Root caries are becoming an increasingly common clinical problem, especially as aged-society. This report is based on the clinical practice guideline which offers a practical expert review of managing root caries with the best scientific evidence and the general consensus of expert clinicians. Root caries should be managed differently from coronal caries, and a shift of its strategy from “early-detection and early-treatment” to “early-detection and long-term management” is called for. Once the restorative treatment is chosen, it is often more advantageous to use glass-ionomer than resin composite. In addition, as we face a super-aged society now, in today’s dentistry setting, silver diammine fluoride (SDF) with high demineralization inhibitory effect is being re-evaluated as the “rescue material” (material for emergency cases) for root caries.